Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 118

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Part 3 Resurrection: Please Allow "Me" To Become Someone Who Shines In History, Pg 164

Please Allow "Me" To Become Someone Who Shines In History

Father! The path that we are going is not a path we are going for some individual. Please let us understand that at the same time that it is a path for ourselves, it is a path for the world and the nation; and we are not living for some individual being, we are living for the world.

Please let us come to understand that when we were born, this being called "I," if I am so and so Kim, I was not born for so and so Kim alone. I, so and so Kim, was born in order to go this way.

Please allow us to be proud of this of our own accord, and to become those who say that this is the duty of our lives; and please allow us to understand its value. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that You will let us know that the purpose for having become Unification Church members is to find a central substantial being who can let us see this problem clearly and solve it and make its value even more precious.

Father! We have understood that going this path should be more urgent than anything else in the world. If we ask for whom we have gathered, we have not gathered for the teacher of the Unification Church, and we have not gathered for anything of the Unification Church.

Since we want to go forward for the nation, the Unification Church is needed, and since that is the nation and world which the Unification Church is hoping for, we are believing in and following it. Since this is the nearest path to that goal, we are following this path. But Father, please to not allow our unchanging hearts which seek to go to the nation through the Unification Church, to the world through the Unification Church, to the cosmos through the Unification Church to become dejected. Please allow those hearts to quietly, calmly endure and go forth.

Please let the sound of the heartbeat coming from our hearts and the sound of the heartbeat coming from the heart of heaven become one with our bodies, and please let our very beings be able to take on the role of arteries to let the feelings of our lives move and flow. And please allow us as the pulse of those arteries to be able to shine forever in the annals of history and to be able to become the friends of all people in our lives. Please let us realize that now at this time You are asking us whether that wouldn't be our hope.

Where are our minds flowing now? Where are our bodies staying? Please don't let us remain at the point of our selfish minds of the past. Please don't let us be those who hide our bodies in a self of the past which can be ruined or who remain in a position where we can be punished.

Please allow us to be able to have minds and bodies in a position able to take on the burden of Your mind and able to make the minds of humankind on the earth bloom. Please allow us to become Your princes and princesses who kneel down before You, Father, and determine our loyalty and who imagine an "I" who is able to become the light of all.

Please allow us to become those who are able to quietly, gently grow and to quietly, gently establish our individual positions which are able to blossom with the fervor of adoration, or positions which are able to shine with the fervor of longing.

We will have to rouse ourselves to action having hope in a shining tomorrow. We will have to rouse ourselves to action having hope in the "I" of the shining tomorrow. We will have to rouse ourselves to action for the sake of the shining new Kingdom of Heaven. In order to do that, we will have to become appropriate vessels for it. We will have to become those who are able to shine internally and externally. And furthermore, we must become Your sons and daughters who bow our heads before this relationship preordained by heaven, and we must become children who are able to call You "Father" sincerely. Then in the midst of that love we will sing of our daily lives, and we earnestly ask You, beloved Father, to allow us all to become Your sons and daughters who in that situation are able to praise the work of each day in a holy way. Please let the remaining time become glorious, and in relation to praising ourselves, please let this become a true position.

We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
(August 31, 1969)